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What You get will get a healthy KOMBUCHA CULTURE MUSHROOMs... plus STARTER TEA (about 1/2 cup) also detailed instructions on my web page how to start and re-brew your kombucha tea. thanks. It will be Double bagged then shipped in a box ...

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First time Kombucha maker here. I decided it only made sense to enjoy the adventure of making our own, rather than pay out the pocket for pre-made Kombucha that never tastes exactly like I'd like it to. So for well under $100, I got two 1 gallon jars, twelve 16oz pressure bottles, 2 strip thermometers, the Big Book of Kombucha (highly recommend this) and 2 SCOBYs.

These are everything you need, minus spring water, black or green tea and sugar (I'm using Sugar in the Raw) because of the nice molasses flavor. And DON'T forget, as great as the book is, Youtube is always an awesome source for learning a new skill.

So, all that aside, let's talk about the SCOBYs. I ordered 2, one for each gallon jar to get us started. They come in a small but sturdy cardboard box with a heat sealed plastic bag with the SCOBY and starter tea, sealed in another plastic bag - and a small typewriter paper sized business card with a QR code to get you to their website. That is it. Simplistic, yet all you need to get going.

One box had a single THICK (half inch) SCOBY and the other box had 2 thinner SCOBYs in it. All three about 3 inches round and very healthy looking. After steeping the tea, adding the sugar and adding the rest of the water to make up a nearly full gallon jar, I removed the heat-sealed plastic bag with the SCOBYs from the boxes and after cleaning my hands well (DO NOT USE ANTIBACTERIAL SOAP - it could harm the SCOBY when handling it) I then used scissors to cut the bag and gently removed the SCOBYs and let them slide into the gallon jars - pouring the starter Kombucha into the jar - then covered the jar opening with a coffee filter held around the opening with a rubber band.

So after these Kombuchas are fermented, we will add fresh fruit or other natural flavorings to the pressure bottles (like those used in bottling home brew beer) fill with the Kombucha almost to the top of each 16oz bottle and this will start carbonation - making you fizzy beverages that YOU custom made. Of course you can drink the Kombucha right from the gallon jar as a natural fermented tea, just taste it every day using a straw dipped under the SCOBY until you reach your preferred taste of tart and sweet. If you never had it, think of apple cider vinegar but with a nice tea flavor and as sweet or tart as you like it. I like more sweet than tart, and my wife the opposite - thus our customizing our batches.

One jar is mine, I have a white coffee filter over it, and the other my wife's uses a natural brown coffee filter. The SCOBYs sunk right to the bottom, as they often do when they are small (laws of buoyancy apply) but as they feed on the caffeine in the tea and the sugar, they will grow and float to the top, MAKING A SECOND SCOBY known as the daughter as the next 10 days to 2 weeks come along. So if you start with one SCOBY, after fermenting you have 2, than four, than eight,and doubling each time. You can save these SCOBYs in a jar with Kombucha and give these to family and friends to start their own Kombucha - OR add several SCOBYs to a gallon jar when making Kombucha to speed up the fermentation time. Keeping the extra SCOBYs in a single jar as you collect them is called a SCOBY HOTEL.

Well... there you have it folks, the birth of a new hobby that will lead us to giving inexpensive, yet very personal gifts of Kombucha or SCOBYs to others and they will know that time, effort and love was put into the gifts. I'm looking forward to making a dozen or two fizzy bottles to share with coworkers at our Christmas party. We'll drink it there, but the bottles are coming home with me :)

RECAP: these SCOBYs came well packaged, healthy and ready to start a wonderful adventure in making our own beverages. The website is not a treasure trove of information but search SCOBY and KOMBUCHA on Youtube (and I do mean do it NOW if you have any interest in this, because it will really dissolve any mystery you may have concerning this) and if you really want to have a great hands-on get the BIG BOOK OF KOMBUCHA here on Amazon - it's a 400 page large paperback filled with wonderful photos and recipes AND the book is $10 cheaper than the list price!

I was waiting to see if the new scoby grew before writing my review. It is EXCELLENT!Because of my lack of knowledge I got two SCOBYs ( (Symbiotic Colony Of Bacteria and Yeast) from the original that I bought: one is HUGE and the other is normal size but thick. The whole process of getting two scobys from one lasted about a month during the months of winter. I did not drink the first batch because I did not know if things were going well. Today I got the first batch of home-brewed kombucha and it is excellent. And started the second batch.

Why two scobys?This was product of not knowing, being afraid the scoby would die on me, and not seeing the web address that came with the scoby where I could see the instructions.Since this was my first time handling the scoby, etc. I was kind of scared. I did not want to scoby to die. So, I prepared tea and used raw-dark sugar. However, I did not pay attention that the seller sent an Internet address where one could get the directions. I followed other directions and prepared more tea than what I should have (the correct sugar/tea ratio though). The scoby sunk as soon as I put it in the new home and never floated. I thought I had killed it. I waited but did not know what to expect. So after about 10 days, I assumed the scoby was not doing well because of the raw-dark sugar and maybe too much fluid? So, I decided to move the little scoby to a new -smaller- "home" scoby with unrefined light brown sugar (I do not use refined sugar). I added a little white vinegar to keep any fungus out of the equation (I cannot remember the amount, but found the instructions somewhere in the Internet)..But instead of throwing away the initial fluid with raw-dark sugar, I kept it because I saw some little filaments. In addition, I read that the stuff at the bottom of a bottle of kombucha are rests of scoby. So, I added the stuff from the bottom of the kombucha bottle to the larger home (with raw-dark sugar) to help the filaments just in case. After a few weeks, the filaments and additional stuff (from the bottom of the bottle) grew into something that seemed a new scoby, strong.

The seller, Poseymon, was awesome too. First, since I bought it closed to New Year, the seller made sure the shipping would not fall on the 31st (I think it arrived on the 28th of December). In addition, since I had no idea how a healthy scoby looks like, I took some pictures and sent them to the seller. The seller told me that it looked healthy. So I kept it and waited. A week ago, I threw the initial fluid and replaced it for new tea with unrefined brown sugar. The scoby kept growing and in a week produced some delicious kombucha. These things are soooo strong and healthy! I totally love it.The second one has grown to a normal size and is very thick. So today I replaced its old fluid and started the process with this one. I kept the original scoby (very thin now) with this one.

One cannot imagine that from the little scoby bought from Poseymom, two healthy scobys were born, The huge scoby is about 7.5-8 inch in diameter and 1.5 in thick. The smaller is about 3.5 - 4 inch in diameter and 1 in thick.The original scoby (the one I bought is still alive but very thin.

I attached a few pictures after the second round of kombucha (another SCOBY! the original SCOBY is the thin one). The larger SCOBY is the one I got for lack of knowledge :o)

In conclusion: the scoby sent is of excellent quality. The seller is great.

The SCOBY came in two separate plastic bags so it would not leak (it did not). One bag contained a perfectly round white SCOBY with a little bit of liquid that served as a starter. The delivery was fast. The SCOBY is viable. I am happy to say that I have been making batches of delicious Kombucha. That SCOBY is a monster!! I have been having to start new Kombucha because the SCOBY keeps getting bigger and bigger. I cut a good sized portion to give to a friend that thing took off like crazy. Real good product. Will NOT need to buy again unless something goes horribly wrong and I manage to kill this amazing SCOBY. I do recommend this to anyone who wants to make their own Kombucha.

I recently picked up a 3 liter mason jar with spout for a kombucha continuous brew. Now it's so much easier to use a bit of kombucha tea in my homemade salad dressings!

I simply made a gallon of sweet tea (2 family size tea bags, 1 cup sugar) then let it sit until cool. I added 2 cups white vinegar (since I don't have starter tea) to the jar then poured in the sweet tea to mix. I set the scoby and it's starter fluid into the new scoby jar where it seems to be sluggishly starting to work it's magic (our kitchen is a cool 68F this winter). So far very satisfied!

I recently ordered this to start making my own Kombucha. Came sealed in a bag- the scoby and bag were smaller than expected (about the diameter of a mason jar), and the starter tea was less than 1 cup. I added them both to one gallon of sweetened tea to get things started, a bit worried about the size, and the whole thing took off just fine. 6 days later, I have a healthy baby scoby floating on the top, and the kombucha is well on its way to being done. Five stars for doing what it's supposed to do.

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